# Setting a user to watch first post on a category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-user-to-watch-first-post-on-a-category/125494
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [August 11, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-user-to-watch-first-post-on-a-category/125494 "2019-08-11T23:35:42Z")
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### Author: ![csmu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/csmu/32/124581_2.png) [@csmu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/csmu)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-user-to-watch-first-post-on-a-category/125494/3 "2019-08-12T00:58:49Z")

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This post pretty much sorts out what I wanted to do.

> [@(Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-set-category-tracking-level-defaults-historically/53165):
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> warning Following the release of Discourse v2.4.0.beta7 (or if you have [this commit](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b2f682f35eba0cc3f09588356ecf8d1dd824542f)), admins now have the option to set the category tracking levels of all existing users when setting the default category tracking levels in their site settings: Add a category to one of the following site settings, then select the green checkbox button. A modal window will pop up with the following options: play_button The old way using the console

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